From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 13 1:58:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from HAL9000.wox.org (as3-4-150.HIP.Berkeley.EDU [136.152.196.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0846D37B419 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 01:58:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dschultz@localhost) by HAL9000.wox.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g0D9wdg06482; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 01:58:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 01:58:38 -0800 From: David Schultz To: C J Michaels Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Spamming FreeBSD lists. Message-ID: <20020113015838.D5351@HAL9000.wox.org> Mail-Followup-To: C J Michaels , FreeBSD Questions References: <87ofk6dnjh.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from cjm2@earthling.net on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:48:07PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake C J Michaels : > Adding a warning message that incurred fines for spam, would be very cool if > it was enforcible. Provided it was worded in such a way as to not scare off > newbie's. Check out http://www.spamlaws.com/state/ca1.html So it *is* possible to charge spammers, just too impractical to do so. You'd have to track them down, have them served, pay legal fees, and bear the burden of proof, then wait for the government to repossess the spammer's house trailer. Moreover, it wouldn't solve the problem... but it would be very satisfying. I like the confirmation idea better, but once someone has confirmed, their address should be cached for quite some time as a matter of convenience. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message